A Day At Sea

Our ship, the MS Nautical, is such a beautiful ship. This is a picture of The Grand Staircase which goes from Deck 5 to Deck 4. The Grand Dining Room is at the top of the stairs to the right. The size of this ship with 684 passengers is terrific and the staff and crew are so friendly and helpful. Last evening when we returned from a long and hot day in Bankok the staff was waiting with cold towels for you face, cold apple juice and water to quinch our thirst and live music by one of the ship's groups to satisify our souls...plus staff members smiling and saying :"welcome back." There is not much they haven't thought about and provided for us.

We have had such a marvelous day today at sea sailing in the South China Sea toward Singapore. We leisurely woke up, watched us sail from the port in Thailand and had a delicious breakfast in the Grand Dining Room. Heard an interesting presentation about what we can expect on our shore excursion in about 9 days to the Taj Mahal. We heard a great lecture on Art at Sea- looking at paintings of ships and how cruise lines use the art to depict the feeling of their ships.

We have both spent time enjoying the Library on the ship. It has great books, is a wonderful palce to read and also has two computers with Internet access.

We spent the afternoon doing different things. Jim did laundry and Elaine worked on organizing our pictures. Now that we have two digital cameras we have twice as many to select, modify and save...or not save. We played Team Trivia in the afternoon and then we watched us sail for a bit from the 10th Deck Horizons Lounge. We even saw some dolphins at play.
Our dinner tonight was so wonderful- a tart with blue cheese and spinach; eggplant slice stuffed with ham and cheese in a tomato sauce; tenderloin with great vegetables. We didn't even look at the dessert menu.

We are so enjoying this trip and this time together. Grateful for the opportunitites that we have had.